Early on Friday morning Aretha Cardinal and her husband were sitting in a car in the driveway of their Texas City home when all of a sudden they were ambushed by two men wearing clown masks.

They threatened her husband with a machete and demanded cash.

“I’m sitting here talking to my wife and the next thing I know, when I look up, I see somebody running towards me with this white clown mask on and a machete,” Nelson told Houston’s KTRK-TV. “He reached his hand through the window, put it on my throat like this and I’m like, ‘Dude, you serious, you trying to rob me with a machete?'”

Instead of giving the two clowns any money, the couple fought back. Nelson took control of the machete and his wife chased the suspects with her granddaughter’s scooter and used it to hit one of the robbers, the report said.

“Me and my husband held them down, you know, commence to beating them until the laws came,” Cardinal told FOX 26 in Houston. “It was really scary, but it was like– it was either us or them– you know, and not us. You not gonna steal no money. We ain’t got no money.”

The couple’s adult daughter called 911 and they arrested the two suspects Luis Jimenez, 32, and Jose Lugo, 35, at the scene. Both men are charged with aggravated robbery and are being held in Galveston County jail on $100,000 bond each.

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